Greetings to all music lovers and readers!
Today I want to introduce you to new material and the work of a new unknown band. Naturally, in parallel to share impressions of listening / studying it.
The band is called Fallen Sanctuary and is an international side project of two famous musicians - Georg Neuhauser from the Austrian metal band Serenity and the frontman of the Italian band Temperance Marco Pastorino. Let's start with your permission.
Fallen Sanctuary's album "Terranova" is nothing short of melodic power metal. Quite an interesting, successful and original combination of style. Despite the narrowness and predictability of the power metal genre, the musicians boldly took up the experiment with the genre and did not fail.
The main feature of the project is two excellent, powerful clean vocals of the above-mentioned vocalists. As for the material, I noticed for myself the similarity with the more famous band Serious Black, who are now working in the direction of melodic metal.
"Terranova" is a stunning fusion of bright melody, speed (which is natural in itself), beautiful vocal parts and, of course, a variety of quite interesting and complex solos from guitarist/vocalist Marco Pastorino. The only thing that seemed to me not enough in the studio work was the variety of material. In that sense, here you will not hear anything really new. But this does not prevent you from enjoying the proposed material.
I would call "Broken Dreams" the highlight of the entire Fallen Sanctuary studio album. In the song, you can hear an amazing duet of both vocalists. The musicians complement each other really well.
The tracklist contains not only power actions. There is also a semi-acoustic romantic ballad "Can't Say", with a slightly pop touch. But it's a decent job. "Wait for Me" is one of the bonus tracks on the record - another successful ballad that also impresses me very much. I do not want to describe each song so that you, potential listeners, do not draw conclusions only from my text and opinion.
Summing up, I can say this. Despite the collaboration of two cool musicians, Fallen Sanctuary released not just another passing work, of which there are now more than good material. This is a decent unit of power metal. Also, the genre scene needs new releases like Terranova.
Thank you for your attention!